The Northeast Comprehensive Center, working collaboratively with NHDOE and the Center for Assessment, is in the process of developing a 5 part series of video modules on Student Learning Objectives (SLOs). These modules are intended to provide practicing educators with an understanding of the key concepts central to the SLO process. Three modules have been [...]Continue Reading →

On May 6 in Bethesda, Maryland, Susan Mundry, facilitator of the Northeast Educator Effectiveness Research Alliance (NEERA) at REL Northeast & Islands, and Carol Keirstead, the co-director of the Northeast Comprehensive Center (NCC), led a day-long educator effectiveness strand at the 2015 Leveraging Resources Conference. This is an annual event focused on “coordinating technical assistance [...]Continue Reading →

NCC is working with the New Hampshire Department of Education to deepen the commitment to quality early learning across the state. On January 22, 2015, NCC facilitated a meeting of the Commissioner’s Task Force on Early Learning which included teachers, specialists, principals, and superintendents. Commissioner Virginia M. Barry welcomed the Task Force members and announced [...]Continue Reading →

NCC is working closely with the New Hampshire Department of Education to help them develop professional development learning pathways in early learning (kindergarten-3rd grade) as part of the New Hampshire Network, a web-based platform connecting educators and experts across the state. We have just completed a first learning pathway focused on mathematics, called Foundational Concepts [...]Continue Reading →

Video series supports educators in New Hampshire in learning about and implementing the NH Model Educator Support and Evaluation System. The series includes four modules: #1 An Overview by Commissioner Barry, #2 Supporting and Evaluating Educator Performance, #3 Measures of Student Performance, and #4 Student Learning Objectives. The series was co-produced by NCC in collaboration [...]Continue Reading →

The Northeast Comprehensive Center worked alongside the New Hampshire Department of Education, a statewide task force of educators and policy makers, and assessment consultants from the Center for Assessment to create a model system of teacher support and evaluation. The model is described in a Nov 2013 report, The New Hampshire Task Force on Educator [...]Continue Reading →

CEELO staff conducted a literature search to identify research-based materials that served as foundational resources for national and state content standards, many of which were incorporated into state K-3rd grade curriculum frameworks. The Chief State School Officers State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards- Early Childhood (CCSSO/SCASS-EC) also suggested resources and state models to explore. [...]Continue Reading →

This framework was developed through the facilitation of a group of multiple key stakeholders across NH’s educational communities by the NERCC and NCC over a period of 2 years that deeply reflects what is happening in the state in RTI and the unified direction that the DOE suggests schools and districts use. This document provides [...]Continue Reading →